Re: Help with a differential equation

In article <kjSae.11446$V02.5881@xxxxxxxx>, Ron Sperber
<ronsperber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't know about your textbook, but most of the introductory DE
> textbooks I've seen only deal with linear first order ODEs which this
> definitely is not.
>
> However the following trick might be useful
>
> Let u=(y/x).

Look under "homogeneous" in your textbook, and you will find that trick.
But we don't call it a trick, we call it a method.
.

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